spoon
\spuːn\
The verdict
“spoon” is uncommon French (frequency #60,391 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,391
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cuiller, cuillère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-spoon · spoon · French
spoon · rank #60,391 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,391
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH spina
Nearest frequency peer: spina (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « spoon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- soufflage
soufflage
39,614 corpus weight
- sourie
sourie
39,612 corpus weight
- spina
spina
39,611 corpus weight
- spoon
spoon
39,610 corpus weight
- stabilisés
stabilisés
39,609 corpus weight
- stationnent
stationnent
39,608 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « spoon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spoon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \spuːn\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #60,391 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « spoon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
spoon is uncommon French at frequency #60,391 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \spuːn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for spoon, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is spoon, spelled S-P-O-O-N.
Definition
- 1Cuiller, cuillère.
- 2(Sens figuré) Une personne pas très intelligente.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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